So if even a U-boat and it's sad sack deck gun can easily sink an Armed Trawler without issue why do they even use them? Why not take the steel from their hulls and build a much more useful Destroyer? Those trawlers... useless.
A little suguay... I'm currently shadowing an outbound convoy which I picked up just at the mouth of the English Channel and it's 1940. It only has 3 escorts, one flower class corvette, one destroyer in line with the convoy like a merchant in the middle column (whats with that? anyone?), and an armed trawler taking up the rear. This is gonna be one of those early war massacres, I can see it already!
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